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Tereasa Surratt

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THINGS I MADE. Tales from the trenches.

Welcome to the “creative junk drawer.” Parts and pieces of projects over the years. A glimpse into an insatiable need to make, build, style, innovate, film, photograph & create things. Sometimes solo, sometimes directing teams, always in the trenches. Motto: Always keep your hands dirty, always be making.
*click on thumbnails for the specific detail on my role on each.

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Visual look + feel for homecare brand Caldrea.

Animation + Poster

Cover design + co-authored book on Wandawega History.

Illustration

Created a pop up bar for restaurant group Element Collective

Interior Design

Space takeover in an abandoned theater. Assembled & creative directed art directors, stylists, photographers, filmmakers & designers.

Experience Design

Assembled & creative directed art directors, stylists, photographers, filmmakers & designers.

Experience Design

Art project, for teaching a class Anthropolgie + Sweet Paul magazine feature

Illustration + teaching

Immersive room design for popup. Assembled & creative directed art directors, stylists, photographers, filmmakers + designers.

Pop Up Experience design

10,000 button 'story wall' installation in feature story.
Candle design for Limitedu edition for Anthropologie.

Product Design.

Custom T-Bucket roadster restoration, pitch + feature in KarKraft magazine. Partner in crime: My little bro.

Co- Restoration

Creative direction, photographer selection. Client: Interface carpet.

Poster Design

GANT x Wandawega clothing + accessories line.

Product Design: Co-Design for GANT

Ogilvy brand book, 50k print run for distribution to all employees. Photography: Geof Kern

Book Design

Custom oars with Sanborn Canoe co.

Product Graphics Design

Brand style, film, manifesto in popup. Client: Interface.

Space: Brand Style Guide

Creative direction of photographer + stylist. Print series. Client: Interface.

Styling print design

Experiential popup store in NY for fragrance brand.

Experience Design

No place like home. Styling for features in Anthology, Arc Record, WSJ.

Interior Design.

Creative direction establishing look & feel. Direction designers, producers. Client: Glade

Print Design

Location, set design & partnership.

Wandawega x Land of Nod collab

Featured for Wall Street Journal 'Viewfinders' Featuring Mercedes. Location: Wandawega.

Styling + location.

Assembled & creative directed photographer. : Dove deodorant.

Print Design

Assembled & creative directed set & stage designers, architect, art directors, stylists, photographers, filmmakers + designers, part of a complete 360 social campaign. Client: Glade.

Experiential Design for pop up store

Stylist, art director, designer. Client: Dove.

Print Design

Point & shoot for travel blog feature.

Photography

Assembled & creative directed art directors, stylists, photographers, filmmakers, designers, builders & architects.

Experiential Creative Direction

Folio design (for in house magazine) Client: Interface

Magazine Design

Sketching

Illustration

Concept & design, creative direction of illustrator & production.

Poster + Experiential design

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Aka: 'Camp Wandawega'. (wandawega.com)

The Side Hustle.

Created a tent village that became an instagram fav.

Tent village

Design, execution. Learn more at wandawegahillhouse.com

Space Design & Partnership with Rejuvenation.

Created with friends who became family. To be shared with everyone.

A Treehouse.

Dressing up the house for Halloween. Because pumpkins are never enough.

Because our 8 year old wanted to.

A story told about a founder. Told on an agency wall.

Space design: An Agency lobby.

Co-design of customization for base bike. For the Camp Wandawega Sportsmans Edition Ural.

Product Design

Installation for Steppenwolf theater. (collaboration with artists, designers and build crew).

Theater space design

Telling a story on a wall through thousands of fragments. Curation of artists, components, story concept.

Story wall. 10k buttons art installation.

Played host for the SOHO house crew to come do a dance party in the middle of our woods, in the middle of the night.

“Space” Design

*Keyframe from integrated brand campaign to launch new fragrance line. One image from a series of animated films (Creative direction : overseeing designers, animators, production)

Fragrance story in animated film.

Pop up in an abandoned theater to launch a fragrance line.

Immersive Experience Design

Pop up in an abandoned theater to launch a fragrance line.

Immersive Experience Design

Pop up in an abandoned theater to launch a fragrance line.

Immersive Experience Design

For Wallstreet Journal & Mercedes 'Viewfinders' series on creatives.

Shoot at home.

Products for a global healthcare brand for women 'of a certain age'.

Brand Campaign

Collaboration with the Graduate Hotel on the 'Camp Wandawega Suite'

Hotel Room Design

'Campstyle' magazine. A 100+ page journal of creative projects.

Custom magazine design.

Produced by Land of Nod. Part of a series within the Wandawega x Land of Nod collection.

Wall prints

Pop up on the top floor of the Gramery Park Hotel, NYC. To celebrate fragrance launch for Caldrea. Overall Creative direction.

Immersive Experience Design

Homer Laughlin china custom products for WandawegaHillhouse.com

Product design collaboration

Partnered with Homer Laughlin to design and produce a custom line (400pcs made), in the original hand painted and glazed techniques they have employed for over 150 years.

Custom tableware

They built us a coffee bar at the WandawegaHillhouse.com we created content for them by all the folks who come use it.

Partnership with La Marzocco

Created the real one for ongoing shoots, films and events at camp. Co-designed the kids version now sold in Crate For Kids.

Experiential space becoming Product Design

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Played host to an epic event called 'weekenders', Camp Wandawega

Host for SOHO House wooden dance party.

Print Design (creative direction of photography)

Launch of Dove into haircare.

A space for collaboration for Ogilvy creatives. * photo featured in Dwell.

Department of Experiential.

A moment from a animated brand film featuring new carpet line.

Animation. Brand campaign for Interface flooring.

A moment from a brand film featuring new carpet line.

Interface brand film to launch new line.

A moment from a brand film featuring new carpet line.

Interface brand film.

Created for Chicago Home & Garden 'Chairs for Charity' exhibition & design auction.

Custom chair design

Feature for magazines + Crash pad for guests.

Canned ham renovation.

Featured in Sweet Paul magazine.

Experiential chef event.

Concept & co-execution for bike rally at SOHO House Chicago.

Motorcycle rally

In collaboration with Land & Sea Dept- event at in the Chicago House with a series of chefs.

Supperclub at SOHO HOUSE.

Concept and creative direction of the Steppenwolf garage theater. Creative direction of artists & installation.

Space Design

Ogilvy Dept of experiential. Thrift store makeover, featured in Dwell.

Experience design.

Creative direction and execution.

Camp Style magazine.

Home. Office. Designed by Jeanne Gang.

Home. from Dwell.

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As featured in Architectural Record.

Home. Life. Space. Design.

Creative directed series of portraits, this one in thread. Curated artists and makers for the series.

A portrait in thread.

For Chicago's Steppenwolf theater. Curated artists and creators.

Theater art installation

Brand campaign for Lands End.

Location + styling for Lands End

Installation at Ogilvy offices, Chicago. Concept and artist curation.

Button wall. ‘10,000' stories’

Permanent rug, commissioned artwork at Ogilvy.

A painted floor.

Painted while 8 months pregnant, hormonal & inspired by the baby to be.

Paint by number

The Wandawega Provisions line. Concepted, design, produced with local makers.

Product Design.

The most special day for the most special girl in the world. Also featured in Sweet Paul magazine.

The first birthday party.

Special collaboration and limited release syrup line.

Product Design

Art installation. Concept, commissioning of artist & creative direction.

Theater design

Custom design and fabrication of bench for Steppenwolf theater.

Bench design.

Co-design for limited edition URAL motorcycle for Camp Wandawega.

Camp Wandawega Sportsman’s Edition Sidecar

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Unlike the other two, this one is for the kiddos. "The Forever Tree'

Third book. Publisher: Random House.

Print, Social, Digital, OOH, experiential. Creative directed concept, oversaw team to execute.

Brand Campaign for Interface

A long long time ago, I used to draw pictures.

Drawing in marker.

Pencil. 16x20.

Drawing of a house.

"A Very Modest Cottage". Went at this one solo from the true story behind it, to book launch.

First book. Publisher: Hearst.

Created for Interface carpet. Developed brand look + feel, worked with designers, photographers and writers.

Brand Campaign

Co-design + host event at SOHO House to celebrate the opening.

Experiential Event.

Worked with animation house designers to create a design language for a global healthcare brand.

Graphic look + feel

Photo outtake: hosted a motorcycle rally at the SOHO House to celebrate the launch of the Wandawega x URAL motorcycle.

Motorcycle Rally

Worked with animation house designers to create a design language for a global healthcare brand.

Brand look + feel

Hosted a bike rally at (and with) SOHO House Chicago to celebrate the launch of the Wandawega Ural Sportsman's edition bike.

Motorcycle Rally.

Monaco 500 shot by TrunkClub at home for a film 'The Job'.

Car Restoration + feature.

Photographed for FLOR brand campaign (at home).

1960 Camaro restoration

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Apr 29, 2019

Creative directing culinary for Morton Salt

Apr 29, 2019

Film sizzle reel. Clips from 22 brands. 22 stories. All told through the films created for them, from broadcast to events. From Insurance to bodywash.